Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 678266
urlgrabber doesn't support ftp proxy
Last modified: 2014-01-21 01:20:22 EST
Description of problem: We are using a real FTP proxy not http to ftp proxy, and that's not supported by python urlgrabber and python urllib2 and therefore yum. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): python-urlgrabber-3.1.0-6.el5 How reproducible: setup a ftp proxy in your environment and use for example spacewalk-repo-sync (every sync command will failed) Steps to Reproduce: 1.export ftp_proxy=ftp://myproxy:21 2.spacewalk-repo-sync --url=ftp://whatever/some/where my_channel Actual results: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/spacewalk-repo-sync", line 72, in ? sys.exit(abs(main() or 0)) File "/usr/bin/spacewalk-repo-sync", line 66, in main sync.main() File "/usr/share/rhn/satellite_tools/reposync.py", line 103, in main self.import_packages(plugin, url) File "/usr/share/rhn/satellite_tools/reposync.py", line 135, in import_packages packages = plug.list_packages() File "/usr/share/rhn/satellite_tools/repo_plugins/yum_src.py", line 57, in list_packages sack.populate(repo, 'metadata', None, 0) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 168, in populate if self._check_db_version(repo, mydbtype): File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 226, in _check_db_version return repo._check_db_version(mdtype) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 1233, in _check_db_version repoXML = self.repoXML File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 1406, in <lambda> repoXML = property(fget=lambda self: self._getRepoXML(), File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 1402, in _getRepoXML raise Errors.RepoError, msg yum.Errors.RepoError: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: test-epel-i386-server-5. Please verify its path and try again Expected results: correct synchro or a clean error message Additional info: A ftp proxy is working that way in command line : $ ftp my.proxy ftp-prompt> anonymous@the.real.ftp Password: ****** ftp-prompt> I manage to hack urllib2.py and byterange.py to make it work, but that's really too dirty, I'll like to a have a real fix. Thanks, Thomas
This is probably fixed in RHEL-6 due to use of curl for downloads. This request was evaluated by Red Hat Engineering for inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux maintenance release. Red Hat does not currently plan to provide this change in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux update release for currently deployed products. With the goal of minimizing risk of change for deployed systems, and in response to customer and partner requirements, Red Hat takes a conservative approach when evaluating enhancements for inclusion in maintenance updates for currently deployed products. The primary objectives of update releases are to enable new hardware platform support and to resolve critical defects.